I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn't trying…

Us ballplayers do things backward. First we play, then we retire and go to work.

— Charlie Gehringer

I think that the game is the game. I think that expansion is good for the game because it gives more jobs to the…

— Tony Oliva

As far as actors go, you're not going to find many ballplayers better than me.

— D. B. Sweeney

There are so few Jewish ballplayers, so you want to be a positive role model and provide an example that the Jewish community can…

— Gabe Kapler

As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.

— Rex Stout

Bad ballplayers make good managers, not the other way around. All I can do is help them be as good as they are.

— Earl Weaver

The people who run the game, they are the ones who want to change it and make people believe that it's different somehow. It's…

— Tony Oliva

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

— Babe Ruth

It's the same with the ballplayers. Babe Ruth spent a lot, too and the ballplayers make a lot more money now.

— Mickey Gilley

Conversation is the blood of baseball. It flows through the game, an invigorating system of anecdotes. Ballplayers are tale tellers who have polished their…

— Thomas Boswell

“On the surface, there is something peculiar about turning a portion of one's happiness over to a collection of ballplayers, and perhaps more peculiar…

— Tom Swift

Too bad integration didn't come sooner, because there were so many ballplayers that could have made the major leagues. That's why, you look back,…

— Hank Aaron

“If we can’t be ballplayers together, maybe I can start bein’ a Buddhist.”

— David James Duncan

“Us ballplayers do things backward. First we play, then we retire and go to work. —CHARLIE GEHRINGER”

— Lori Wilde

I don't think it's the intent of baseball not to have black ballplayers, but we have to find a way to get these kids…

— Ken Griffey Jr